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To Violets

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Welcome, maids-of-honour!
      You do bring
      In the spring,
And wait upon her.

She has virgins many,
      Fresh and fair;
      Yet you are
More sweet than any.

You’re the maiden posies,
      And so grac’d
      To be plac’d
‘Fore damask roses.

Yet, though thus respected,
      By-and-by
      Ye do lie,
Poor girls, neglected.

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